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发帖数: 6973 | 3 (a) from Fuzhou to Taipei, and
(b) from Xiamen (formerly known as Amoy) to Kaohsiung.
The news reports:
(1) Chinese mainland mulls cross-Straits rail linking Beijing, Taiwan.
Xinhua, Mar. 12, 2009.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-03/12/content_10996421.htm
("The shortest distance between Xiamen and Taiwan is only 1,800 meters.")
My comment: The distance is only 1.8 km? I wonder why People's Liberation
Army has not crossed the strait yet, after 60 years.
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发帖数: 15270 | 4 【 以下文字转载自 LosAngeles 讨论区 】
发信人: YeSir (这画面太美我不敢看。。。), 信区: LosAngeles
标 题: 阿拉斯加游轮之旅 (2) - Icy Strait Point
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Fri Sep 26 23:48:22 2014, 美东)
时间: 9/10/14
地点：Icy Strait Point, AK, USA
因为港口水深不够，游轮停在海中，靠摆渡船上岸, 图中可见两艘摆渡船正在放入海中：
小镇的收入70%靠着 cruise business， 当地限制每天只能允许一艘船靠岸。
此行的主要目的是在雨林里寻找野生动物
见到一只棕熊在河中抓三文鱼。我们一行人除了带队的导游，为了安全还有押后带枪的
猎人，都是当地土著人。
秃鹰一只
黑尾鹿一头
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发帖数: 8648 | 5 Overseas Young Chinese Forum 10th Annual meeting
"Globalization and Nationalism across the Taiwan Strait"
Globalization and nationalism are the two most important economic and
socio-political developments of our times. Among other things, they have
led to political tensions, economic conflicts and social instability in
every region of the world. We would like to examine such forces, and
the associated tensions and conflicts, in the context of the
cross-Strait relations between mainland Chin |
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发帖数: 4741 | 7 今天忍不住听了3遍，太过瘾了！
基本上就是Dire Straits的精选，虽然只有10首歌
现场版的即兴演奏是录音室里没有的（虽然是两场在荷兰和法国的音乐会拼凑的）
录音质量也相当好。
强烈推荐！ |
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发帖数: 6973 | 8 A report issued on Mar. 13 (today), 9 a.m. EDT (Eastern Daylight Time of US)
states:
"In a highly unusual remark" a defense offcial in Japan, Nobushige
Takamizawa, said a contingency over Taiwan would be "a security matter for
Japan".
Japan would have to "take appropriate actions" in a cross-strait
confrontation, he said.
"It is not an issue of the Japan-US defence alliance. It is a security
matter for Japan," he said.
Note: The Japanese family name Takamizawa is 高見沢.
My comment: Japan will not, |
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发帖数: 6973 | 9 【 以下文字转载自 ChinaNews 讨论区 】
发信人: choi (choi), 信区: ChinaNews
标 题: Taiwan Strait tension cools off
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Apr 17 13:05:33 2008)
That is the titel of a report today in Washington Times. WQritten by Mr >
Bill Gertz.
A quote:
"The United States sent three aircraft carrier strike groups to waters
around Taiwan after China told U.S. officials last year there was high risk
of a military incident after Taiwan's March 22 presidential election,
according to Pentagon and military officials.
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发帖数: 15270 | 10 时间: 9/10/14
地点：Icy Strait Point, AK, USA
因为港口水深不够，游轮停在海中，靠摆渡船上岸, 图中可见两艘摆渡船正在放入海中：
小镇的收入70%靠着 cruise business， 当地限制每天只能允许一艘船靠岸。
此行的主要目的是在雨林里寻找野生动物
见到一只棕熊在河中抓三文鱼。我们一行人除了带队的导游，为了安全还有押后带枪的
猎人，都是当地土著人。
秃鹰一只
黑尾鹿一头
另外一波参加别的活动的游客 |
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发帖数: 855 | 12 Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
钱没有用 |
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发帖数: 609 | 14 买全价的iphone6 加strait talk 45块钱的月计划，算是单身人士最好选择吧？
straight talk 覆盖范围跟ATT一样吗？ |
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发帖数: 8648 | 15 再加首brothers in arms，straits的代表作基本齐活了。 |
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发帖数: 19309 | 17 dIRE sTRAITS乐队时候早期几张我都很喜欢啊，sting蓝龟之梦那张还不错，但是我在
国内时候只买到过the soul cages那张。你不在我这里？不然拉你去陪我听。 |
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发帖数: 3446 | 19 《1434》
有人看了么？
前两页：
One thing that greatly puzzled me when writing 1421 was the
lack of curiosity among many professional historians.
After all, Christopher Columbus supposedly discovered
America in 1492. Yet eighteen years before he set sail, Columbus had a
map of the Americas, which he later acknowledged in his logs. Indeed,
even before his first voyage, Columbus signed a contract with the king
and queen of Spain that appointed him viceroy of the Americas. His
fellow ship’s captain Martín Alons... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2 | 20 第十届中国•海峡项目成果交易会推介手册
Brochure of the 10th China Cross-Straits Technology & Projects Fair
一、中国•海峡项目成果交易会简介
Ⅰ.Brief introduction of China Cross-Straits Technology & Projects Fair
中国•海峡项目成果交易会（以下简称交易会）于每年6月18日至20日在中国东南
沿海城市福建省福州市举办。交易会的主题是：项目—技术—资本—人才交流合作。交
易会致力于为有能力投资的机构、企业和拥有项目研发成果的单位、个人提供项目与资
金、项目与技术、项目与人才成功对接的交易平台。通过这个平台，参会的单位和个人
可以推介展示项目成果和高新技术，投资者可以找到合适的投资项目、合作伙伴与技术
服务渠道，一大批先进适用的项目成果能迅速转化为可以付诸实施的投资项目，转化为
现实生产力。交易会是国内外高等院校、科研机构、企业、个人投资者、金融机构围绕
项目寻找合作伙伴、交流产业与技术开发信息、共谋商机、实现互利双赢的... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 21 (1) Robert D Kaplan, The South China Sea Is the Future of Conflict; The 21st
century's defining battleground is going to be on water. Foreighn Policy,
Sept/Oct 2011.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/08/15
/the_south_china_sea_is_the_future_of_conflict
Quote:
"Europe is a landscape; East Asia a seascape. Therein lies a crucial
difference between the 20th and 21st centuries. The most contested areas of
the globe in the last century lay on dry land in Europe, particularly in the
flat expa... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3305 | 22 专辑６ 《Dire Straits》中文名《险峻海峡》– Dire Straits（险峻海峡）
1. "Down to the Waterline"
2. "Water of Love"
3. "Setting Me Up"
4. "Six Blade Knife"
5. "Southbound Again"
6. "Sultans of Swing"
7. "In the Gallery"
8. "Wild West End"
9. "Lions"
Dire Straits 的第一张专辑，也是同名专辑。中文名翻译的很不好，有叫险峻海峡的
，还有叫恐怖海峡的，其实都不好。
Dire Straits愿意就是指困境， a state of extreme distress ，a bad or
difficult situation or state of affairs，造句如下：
Trent, who had seen men before in dire st... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4825 | 23 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/07/world/middleeast/amid-pressur
HONG KONG — Under growing pressure from the United States, some of Asia’s
largest economies are reluctantly looking for options to reduce the amount
of oil they buy from Iran, a move that would further tighten the economic
vise on an increasingly defiant nation that announced plans for a new round
of naval drills in the Strait of Hormuz.
The decision by South Korea and Japan to try to accommodate Washington’s
demands follows reports... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 30882 | 24 中国将建造中美高铁，引俄罗斯网友热评
China wants to build high−speed railway to US through Siberia and
Bering Strait
译工：discopy 发布日期：2014-06-23 浏览：0
译文简介
这个项目最雄心勃勃的部分显然包括要建造一条海底隧道以使穿越白令海峡成为可能。
长达200公里（125英里）的隧道将意味着令人望而生畏的工程挑战——这将是连接英国
和法国的海峡隧道长度的4倍——但是《中国日报》宣
译文来源
原文地址：http://rt.com/usa/157940-china-us-railway-siberia-bering/
正文翻译
-------------译者：青风梧桐-审核者：龙腾翻译总管------------
The idea of traveling between the United States and China without flying
might seem ridiculous to virtually everyone, but if Beijing ge... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 48111 | 25 The following is the full text of Tsai's speech:
Friends from the domestic and international media. Thank you for your
patience.
Today, the Taiwanese people have used their ballots to make history. We have
now experienced the third transition of political power. For the first time
, there has also been a transition of Taiwan's legislative majority. I would
like to express my deepest gratitude to all the people that went to the
ballot box today and casted their sacred vote. Regardless of how you ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4256 | 26 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f926fd14-df93-11e0-845a-00144feabdc0.
US and China keep close eye on Taiwan race
Taiwan’s elections have always had their fair share of drama. When it
started electing its president 15 years ago, China fired missiles over the
island and later polls saw candidates shot on the eve of the vote.
But the campaign ahead of the next presidential poll in January has been
remarkably dull, even though the stakes are higher than ever. Tsai Ing-wen,
leader of the pro-independence D... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3620 | 27 Taiwan's president re-elected
By the CNN Wire Staff
updated 10:19 AM EST, Sat January 14, 2012
Ma Ying-jeou gestures to supporters outside the campaign headquarter in
Taipei, Taiwan on January 14.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
NEW: President will take office May 20
Obama congratulates Ma on victory
Ma advocates keeping the "1992 Consensus" with China
Tsai is suspected of pushing a pro-independence agenda
Beijing (CNN) -- Taiwan's incumbent President Ma Ying Jeou was re-elected
Saturday in an election seen as... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7025 | 28 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Taiwan_Strait_Crisis
While the United States recognized Chiang's government as the sole
legitimate government for all of China, President Harry Truman announced on
January 5, 1950 that the United States would not become involved in the
dispute of Taiwan Strait and would not intervene in the event of an attack
by the PRC[1]. However, after the outbreak of the Korean War on June 25,
1950, Truman declared the "neutralization of the Straits of Formosa" and
sent the... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 20445 | 29 Taiwan's president re-elected
By the CNN Wire Staff
updated 10:19 AM EST, Sat January 14, 2012
Ma Ying-jeou gestures to supporters outside the campaign headquarter in
Taipei, Taiwan on January 14.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
NEW: President will take office May 20
Obama congratulates Ma on victory
Ma advocates keeping the "1992 Consensus" with China
Tsai is suspected of pushing a pro-independence agenda
Beijing (CNN) -- Taiwan's incumbent President Ma Ying Jeou was re-elected
Saturday in an ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3300 | 30 Turkey has given a US Navy Warship the green light to pass through the
Bosphorus within the next two days as tensions in Ukraine’s Crimea region
continue to divide world powers.
Turkish sources, speaking with the Hurriyet Daily News on Wednesday,
declined to elaborate on the name of the US warship. The same officials told
the daily on condition of anonymity that the ship in question was not the
USS George H.W. Bush nuclear aircraft carrier as suggested in some news
reports, as it did not meet th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1038 | 31 【 以下文字转载自 paladin 讨论区 】
发信人: atack (小军号), 信区: paladin
标 题: 红死病 by 杰克.伦敦
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Oct 11 07:40:15 2014, 美东)
I
The way led along upon what had once been the embankment of a railroad. But
no train had run upon it for many years. The forest on either side swelled
up the slopes of the embankment and crested across it in a green wave of
trees and bushes. The trail was as narrow as a man's body, and was no more
than a wild-animal runway.
Occasionally, a piece of rusty iron, showing through ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 12685 | 32 Report: Head of al Qaeda in Yemen killed
In a video message Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula commander Nasr Ibn Ali
al-Ansi claims responsibility for the attacks on the Charlie Hebdo satirical
magazine Jan. 7, 2015. With pictures of the two Kouachi brothers Said and
Cherif behind him, al-Ansi says "When the heroes were assigned, they
accepted. They promised and fulfilled" and praised that attacks saying
it was revenge for the depictions of the Prophet Mohammed. Al-Ansi went on
to say "It is Fra... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 38600 | 33 0:00 Remember When - Alan Jackson
4:30 The Gambler - Kenny Rogers
8:00 He Stopped Loving Her Today - George Jones
11:18 What a Rotten Day - George Strait
14:13 I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash
16:58 I'd Love to Lay You Down - Conway Twitty
20:14 Mama Tried - Merle Haggard
22:26 Crazy - Patsy Cline
25:12 Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash
27:48 Midnight in Montgomery - Alan Jackson
31:32 Strawberry Wine - Deanna Carter
35:25 Dust on the Bottle - David Lee Murphy
39:19 I Fall to Pieces - Patsy Cline
42:07 Bo... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 34 Spoiler alert: 中或输
https://www.reddit.com/r/taiwan/comments/87i2lk/scenario_the_fourth_taiwan_
strait_crisis_of_2020/
2018 (March onward) – America and China initiate a series of tit-for-tat
trade restrictions and tariffs, gradually resulting in economic losses and
stock market drops totaling in the hundreds of billions
Mid-2019 – Somewhat overdue, the next global recession begins, mostly due
to bad debts and a round of mass layoffs originating in the Chinese economy.
Stock market crashes and so... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8869 | 35 川轮不要再幻想川普和包子联手打击台独了。川普是共和党的总统，重要的事说三遍！
他肯定要继承共和党在台湾问题的一贯立场。分别看看共和党和民主党党纲是怎么说台
湾问题的就知道了。
共和党：
If China were to violate those principles, the United States, in
accord with the Taiwan Relations Act, will help Taiwan defend itself. We
praise efforts by the new government in Taipei to continue constructive
relations across the Taiwan Strait and call on China to reciprocate.
民主党：
We are committed to a “One China” policy and the Taiwan Relations Act and
will continue to support a peaceful resolution of... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2596 | 36 100."A KINDER EYE" --ALLAN HOLDSWORTH
99."YOU LOVE US" --JAMES DEAN BRADFIELD
98."SONG 2" --GRAHAM COXON (BLUR)
97."I AM THE RESURRECTION" --JOHN SQUIRE (STONE ROSES)
96."SHE'S NOT THERE" --CARLOS SANTANA
95."ECHOES" --DAVID GILMOUR (PINK FLOYD)
94."NO-ONE SAID IT WOULD BE EASY" --DAVID BAERWALD (SHERYL
CROW)
93."SAMBA PA TI" --CARLOS SANTANA
92."HE MAN WOMAN HATER" --NUNO BETTENCOURT (EXTREME)
91."CRY FOR THE NATIONS" --MICHAEL SCHENER
90."MOTHER KNOWS BEST" --RICHARD THOMPSON
89."AXIS-BOLD AS ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1038 | 37 I
The way led along upon what had once been the embankment of a railroad. But
no train had run upon it for many years. The forest on either side swelled
up the slopes of the embankment and crested across it in a green wave of
trees and bushes. The trail was as narrow as a man's body, and was no more
than a wild-animal runway.
Occasionally, a piece of rusty iron, showing through the forest-mold,
advertised that the rail and the ties still remained. In one place, a ten-
inch tree, bursting through... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 38 Marc Champion, Anglers Are in Dire Straits Along Istanbul's Bosphorus; Mass
fish migration celebrated by Aristole has slowed; Why tuna steered right.
Wall Street Journal, Jan. 5, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870472310457606199
(a) Istanbul
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul
Quote:
"Byzantium is the first known name of the city. Around 660 BC, Greek
settlers from the city-state of Megara founded a Doric colony on the present
-day Istanbul, and named the new colony after t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5581 | 39 上次我们提出来罗马何以在希腊文明圈里脱颖而出的问题。这个问题不止是一个历史问
题，也是一个政治学问题，决定希腊和罗马文明的崛起和衰落这些历史事件背后的规律
以及在制度上的成败得失，是近代西方政治哲学所非常关注的问题之一。Machiavelli
的最重要的著作(不是最著名的著作，但我个人认为是他份量 最重– 不管是按重量计
算还是按重要性和深度计算 - 的一部著作)Discourses on Livy（《论李维》这部书在
国内已经有译本了，豆瓣上查到一个版本由上海人民出版社出版，不知翻译质量如何）
针对Livy罗马史的前十卷，对罗马早期历史进行了研究，并提出了共和制度的核心机制
：遏制与平衡（check and balance）。也就是今天我们常常挂在嘴边的制衡。
我们同时也分析了罗马早期历史的史料来源，指出了古典罗马历史学家在这方面的可信
度。这样讲，也就意味着我在这个系列读书笔记里将努力（其实也是Rostovtzeff在写
罗马这本书的时候所坚持的理念）把传说（mythology）从历史叙述中尽量剔除。于是
，Aeneas是怎样从特洛伊战争中逃出来，Romulus和Remus是如何建... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5581 | 40 上次说到来自Phocaea的希腊人和Carthage与Etruria的矛盾。下面详细讲述这一段历史
。到了约公元前562年，Phocaeans（波凯亚人）在Corsica建立的殖民城市Alalia。如
果说这只是造成了对Carthage海上霸权的潜在威胁，那么到了公元前546年，一个雪崩
型事件发生了。说明白这件事情要从波斯-冲突说起。当然，这个争端说来话长了，
Herodotus（希罗多德）的历史从Phoenician抢劫妇女（波斯人的说法）引起波斯-希腊
争端开始他的叙述的。我不准备过多的讲这些太远的事情，总之，和我们有关系事件是
这样的。公元前546年，波斯国王Cyrus the Great（居鲁士大帝）镇压Lydia（吕底亚
）的叛乱，派兵把Lydia的附庸，希腊城市Phocaea给围起来了。Phocaeans不愿被波斯
人征服，于是在谈判期间，将所有的船下水，载着所有的人员，财物，器具，神像，甚
至供品离开了城市，给波斯人留下了一座空城。他们中的大多数人航向Tyrrhenian Sea
，因为控制Strait of Messina（复习一下地理，这是意大利本土和Sicily岛... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4825 | 42 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/12/world/asia/taiwan-vote-lures-
BEIJING — The only thing more striking than the $32,000 diamond-encrusted
eyeglasses on display at the Baodao Optical department store here is the
bronze statue of Chairman Mao that greets shoppers entering what is billed
as the world’s largest eyeglass emporium.
That is because Baodao Optical’s owners are from Taiwan, the island whose
governing party, the Kuomintang, fought a fierce — and losing — civil war
against Mao’s Communist ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 30882 | 43 Taiwan is Moving Closer to China, So Why Isn't the U.S. Freaking Out?
The Obama administrationós promises to deepen economic and military ties
with allies in the Asia-Pacific region have fallen flat in light of
budgetary
realities. Defense cuts totaling nearly $1 trillion over the next decade,
and the necessity of focusing diplomatic and military attention on the
Middle
East, most notably Syria, exposed the gap between the White Houseós
unrealistic
expectations and the reality of limited resourc... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3300 | 44 Russian troop deployment in Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula is likely to trigger
a reaction from Turkey. Crimea lies only 173 miles from the Anatolian
coastline, across the Black Sea. It is home to a community of Turkic Tatars,
who are ethnic and linguistic kin of Anatolian Turks and oppose potential
Russian annexation of the peninsula. Turkey has established close ties with
Ukraine, a useful buffer with the bear to the north, since that country's
independence and will take issue with violation of K... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1563 | 45 KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian investigators are increasingly certain that the
missing jetliner turned back across the country after losing communications,
and that someone with aviation skills was responsible for the unexplained
change in course, according to a government official involved in the probe.
The official, who declined to be identified because he is not authorized to
brief the media, said only a skilled person could navigate the Boeing 777
the way it was flown after its last confirmed locat... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6361 | 46 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: uncle4 (八里舖的四大爷), 信区: USANews
标 题: 粗大事了！开火了！
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Jan 9 10:05:50 2017, 美东)
A US Navy Ship Just Fired At Iranian Boats-This Could Be It Folks
http://redstatewatcher.com/article.asp?id=56952
CNN reported: Iranian vessels approached a US Navy ship near the strait in
five separate instances at high rates of speed, the official said. The US
Navy ship fired warning shots once, the official said.
The incident is the latest tense encounter between the two co... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1837 | 47 党的十九大报告双语全文
2017-11-06 14:51:58 （来自：新华社）
决胜全面建成小康社会夺取新时代中国特色社会主义伟大胜利
决胜全面建成小康社会夺取新时代中国特色社会主义伟大胜利
Secure a Decisive Victory in Building a Moderately Prosperous Society in All
Respects and Strive for the Great Success of Socialism with Chinese
Characteristics for a New Era
——在中国共产党第十九次全国代表大会上的报告
（2017年10月18日）
Delivered at the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China
October 18, 2017
习近平
Xi Jinping
同志们：
Comrades,
现在，我代表第十八届中央委员会向大会作报告。
On behalf of the 18th Central Committee of the Co... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3205 | 48 Taiwan is Moving Closer to China, So Why Isn't the U.S. Freaking Out?
The Obama administrationós promises to deepen economic and military ties
with allies in the Asia-Pacific region have fallen flat in light of
budgetary
realities. Defense cuts totaling nearly $1 trillion over the next decade,
and the necessity of focusing diplomatic and military attention on the
Middle
East, most notably Syria, exposed the gap between the White Houseós
unrealistic
expectations and the reality of limited resourc... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3978 | 49 Russian troop deployment in Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula is likely to trigger
a reaction from Turkey. Crimea lies only 173 miles from the Anatolian
coastline, across the Black Sea. It is home to a community of Turkic Tatars,
who are ethnic and linguistic kin of Anatolian Turks and oppose potential
Russian annexation of the peninsula. Turkey has established close ties with
Ukraine, a useful buffer with the bear to the north, since that country's
independence and will take issue with violation of K... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3978 | 50 Russian troop deployment in Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula is likely to trigger
a reaction from Turkey. Crimea lies only 173 miles from the Anatolian
coastline, across the Black Sea. It is home to a community of Turkic Tatars,
who are ethnic and linguistic kin of Anatolian Turks and oppose potential
Russian annexation of the peninsula. Turkey has established close ties with
Ukraine, a useful buffer with the bear to the north, since that country's
independence and will take issue with violation of K... 阅读全帖 |
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